Marzieh Khelghati
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This study evaluates the conditions of prioritizing social media as a mean for spending leisure time, the way people use social media, and its negative and positive impacts from the viewpoint of users. It was carried out via grounded theory approach and qualitative interviews with 10 active users. According ...
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This study evaluates the conditions of prioritizing social media as a mean for spending leisure time, the way people use social media, and its negative and positive impacts from the viewpoint of users. It was carried out via grounded theory approach and qualitative interviews with 10 active users. According to the results of data analysis, four factors were pinpointed as the main underlies of using social media as a mean for spending leisure time, including communication needs, leisure needs, technological needs, and the need for various experiences. Three main positive impacts of social media are growth of communication abilities, psychological effects, and improvement of individual interests. On the other hand, it has negative impacts on family and social relations, physical and mental health and individual effects. Technological-technical effects and mental-psychological are activity continuity factors. The result of this research confirmed a process of replacing the virtual leisure with real leisure and Combining the concepts of work and leisure for users.
Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh; leila bagheri
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In recent years, the life style has been taken into consideration by experts and of different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for different individuals in spending their leisure time, body management and cultural In recent years, the lifestyle has been taken into consideration ...
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In recent years, the life style has been taken into consideration by experts and of different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for different individuals in spending their leisure time, body management and cultural In recent years, the lifestyle has been taken into consideration by experts and different fields, particularly the social sciences as a new mechanism for presentation of people’s taste differences in quality of leisure time spending, body management and cultural consumption in order to planning and policy making. One of the aims of the present study was to determine the procedure of conducted study with emphasis on the quality and quantity of the produced knowledge in this field. That’s why 59 scientific sources (i.e., article, dissertation and book) were collected by searching “life style” word on the scientific databases, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology, national library, Noor specialized journal, Scientific information of Jihad University, and the libraries in Tehran universities and then data were analyzed using systematic review. The obtained results suggested that more than two thirds of studies concerning the lifestyle has been conducted during 2006 – 2011. Six types of lifestyle has been extracted where the quasi-modern lifestyle (34.12%), pre-modern or traditional lifestyle (28/94%), pleasure-centered, science-centered, local- world, and sport-centered were among the types that was highly analyzed. The attention to the lifestyle with emphasis on its relationship with variables of cultural capital, economic capital, religiosity has been highly studied and analyzed.
